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Dear Fellow Local Officials: Please Don't Regulate the Investment Out of Your Community
By Bob Knight, CEO, Harry I have spent a good portion of my career sitting on both sides of the table. Professionally, I work with companies investing hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure and communities across the country. In my public life, I've spent years in local economic development, trying to attract investment, grow the tax base and make my community a better place to live and do business. Those two perspectives have taught me something that I think those

Bob Knight
Aug 254 min read


What Nonprofits Keep Asking Me About Digital — And What I Tell Them
Almost every week, I sit down with nonprofit leaders who feel like the rules of digital marketing have changed overnight. They’re struggling to make sense of it all. Their questions vary slightly, but they cluster around a few real anxieties: Is organic reach actually dead? Is AI search going to make our website irrelevant? Can we really afford paid campaigns? These boil down to the same essential question: Where should we actually spend our time and money? Here's what

Jen Galluzzo
Jul 107 min read


How to Recover a Data Center Project That’s Already Facing Community Pushback
Part 4: When the “Quiet Path” Backfires I'd like to be clear about something up front, which is that most data center developers don’t set out to mislead communities. Both the ones we’re working with and the ones we’ve met are not trying to hide anything. In fact, in many cases, the intent is the opposite: keep things calm, avoid unnecessary noise, and move a good project forward without creating controversy that doesn’t need to exist. And historically? That approach worked.

Bob Knight
Jun 107 min read
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